Name: Anonymous 2014-03-09 9:28
Good languages that died because at the time the people who agreed upon the languages were mad at each other for introducing their ``useless'' pet feature (of course your pet feature is never useless, just theother guy's) and denounced them for being too large:
+ ALGOL68
+ Common Lisp
over 900 symbols in Lisp?? No! That's too much!
And it's obviously not enough as there is a defacto standard extension library (Alexandria) providing more, and several other competitors propping up every now and then. ZetaLisp was much larger.
To put that into perspective, the Java library comes with 3977 classes and god knows how many symbols altogether.
You still get dumbfuck HN hipsters complaining about the massive size of Common Lisp today, when odds are whatever shit they're using has almost an order of magnitude more.
+ ALGOL68
+ Common Lisp
over 900 symbols in Lisp?? No! That's too much!
And it's obviously not enough as there is a defacto standard extension library (Alexandria) providing more, and several other competitors propping up every now and then. ZetaLisp was much larger.
To put that into perspective, the Java library comes with 3977 classes and god knows how many symbols altogether.
You still get dumbfuck HN hipsters complaining about the massive size of Common Lisp today, when odds are whatever shit they're using has almost an order of magnitude more.